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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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#New blog post by our Academy in Exile Fellow Yerkebulan Sairambay about how digitalisation boosts access to research data in Kazakhstan — but authoritarian governance complicates #fieldwork.
https://discuss-data.net/cs/eescca/section/blog/data-collection-kazakhstan/
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Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
#fckafd #academicfreedom #DGPs2026 #dgps -
DATE: August 28, 2026 at 12:13PM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: West Point's Only Climate Scientist Fired Over Teaching Human Causes
Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis
The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, the U.S. army's military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of climate change, a lawsuit claims. Adam Kalkstein, a geography professor at the New York institution, was terminated after the spring semester this year, six months after a tense meeting with Brigadier General Shane Reeves, then dean of West Point's academic board, the court filing...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #WestPointsClimateSci #ClimateChangeTeaching #HumanCauses #AcademicFreedom #MilitaryAcademy #AdamKalkstein #WestPointFired #ClimateEducation #EnvironmentNews #TheGuardian
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Update. "DOJ Whistleblower Confirms 'Antisemitism' Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations."
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/21/antisemitism_universities_trump#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Antisemitism #Censorship #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "A leading House Democrat [Jamie Raskin, D-MD] on Tuesday called for an investigation into new whistleblower allegations that the #Trump administration forced #universities it deemed politically incorrect into settling #antisemitism cases despite flimsy or nonexistent evidence."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say
(#paywalled)See Raskin's letter to the Justice Department.
https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-08-18-raskin-to-dhillon-doj-re-title-vi-investigation.pdf#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. "Judge Dismisses Federal #Antisemitism Case Against #Harvard."
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/13/us/trump-newsThis is big for many reasons. One is that the #Trump admin has been using litigation about antisemitism to get leverage over unrelated university programs and funding. Another is that it has been aggressive and dishonest in construing criticism of #Israel, and support for #Palestinian rights, as antisemitism.
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/240772/ Israeli Scholar Raz Segal’s Genocide Essay on Gaza Goes Viral After $250,000 University of Minnesota Settlement #AcademicFreedom #AntonioGuterres #GazaGenocide #GenocideEssay #HolocaustScholar #Israel #IsraeliApartheid #JewishCurrents #JobOfferRescinded #Nakba #ProIsraelLobby #RazSegal #SettlerColonialism #UNGenocideConvention #UniversityOfMinnesota #ViralOpEd
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"#MERIP’s Spring issue, #CampusPolitics — #Palestine and the New University Order, comes two years after mass #studentMobilizations against #Israel’s genocide in Palestine reached their peak with #studentEncampments across the United States and Europe.
"The issue takes stock of #higherEducation following this inflection point..."
https://www.merip.org/issue-318/
#Gaza #PalestineSolidarity #studentProtests #activism #campusActivism #higherEd #academicFreedom #USpol #EuPol #censorship #stateRepression -
CW: Epstein, Lawrence Krauss, war on science
J'avais raté cette vidéo de Shaun sur un livre récemment coordonné par l'agresseur sexuel (et accessoirement physicien et figure très présente dans les milieux sceptiques scientifiques des années 2000-2010) Lawrence Krauss chez un éditeur conspirationniste d'extrême-droite chrétienne américain.
https://youtu.be/tyU5Xkk6TuE?si=XVHg15pPkDoGTNoASi vous voulez en savoir plus sur les liens entre certains scientifiques américains, qui s'inscrit dans la suite des #ScienceWars et le lien avec l'affaire #epstein (qui aurait pu prévoir???), voilà où on en est. Comme d’hab c'est long mais c'est documenté.
#zététique #skeptic #Science #academia #academicfreedom #espritcritique
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
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Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact – The Vanderbilt Hustler
Associate professor in social movements, indigenous rights and political anthropology Carwil Bjork-James speaks at the Teach-In against the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” as photographed on Oct. 17. 2025. (Courtesy of Ethan Thorpe)Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact
Professors and graduate students gathered at the Teach-In to speak out against the compact.
By Ella Crocco, Staffer-in-Training, Oct 24, 2025
Vanderbilt Student Government and members of Vanderbilt’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors hosted a Teach-In on Oct. 17 regarding the higher education compact Vanderbilt was sent from the Trump administration. Students and faculty at the event discussed how they believe the compact could endanger academic freedom, education policy and the university’s core values, among other topics.
Jessie Hock, associate English department chair and associate professor of English, opened the Teach-In with contextual remarks. Carwil Bjork-James, associate professor in social movements, indigenous rights and political anthropology, then spoke to the crowd about how he believes that if Vanderbilt agrees to the compact, it could have negative financial impacts for the university.
“I think that our administrators are being misled by the promise of more research funding by an administration that is clearly cutting off research funding and restricting it at every level,” Bjork-James said.
In an interview with The Hustler, Bjork-James said that the compact will not help ensure Vanderbilt is a space where students and faculty can freely express their thoughts.
“I would say faculty are really committed to maintaining this campus as a place where [students] can speak freely, where [students] can come here with any political opinion, with any perspective, get an open education and where there are viable places to do scholarship and research and this compact is not the right way to do that,” Bjork-James said.
Jada Benn Torres, associate professor in genetics, race and genetic ancestry, followed by speaking about how she believed Vanderbilt signing the compact would limit scientific research and free speech. In a message to The Hustler, Benn Torres said that the compact could contribute to the marginalization of communities and hopes Vanderbilt will continue to be a place where freedom of discussion is practiced.
“I am very concerned that the compact will upend academic freedom and freedom of expression. Additionally, there are elements of the compact that further marginalize communities that are already marginalized,” Torres said. “Overall, I think that the university needs to be a place where we are free to ask difficult questions and grapple with uncomfortable answers.”
Rebecca Epstein-Levy, assistant professor of Jewish studies and gender & sexuality studies, spoke about how she believes the compact has anti-trans provisions which would limit her ability to teach and research certain topics about Judaism and sex, sexuality, gender and disability.
“I’m a Jewish ethicist, and I research and teach courses at the intersection of Jewish text, Jewish thought, and sex, sexuality, gender and disability,” Epstein-Levy said. “The compact’s claim that there are only two genders — a claim which is bigoted, venal and spectacularly wrong — would make it impossible for me to teach these subjects accurately and responsibly.”
Jonathan Gilligan, earth and environmental studies and civil and environmental engineering professor, spoke about how he believes the compact could limit research and what is taught in science classes because topics may offend conservative policies.
Gilligan shared in an interview with The Hustler that he and many of his colleagues are worried about government overreach. They believe that if the government enforces politicized versions of science upon universities, they will not stop with the biology of sex and gender.
Editor’s Note: I am proud of hopeful of American higher education. Stand up for your rights, and protect us all with your views and passion for Democracy. –DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Vanderbilt Student Government and the Vanderbilt chapter of American Association of University Professors host campus Teach-In in response to Trump administration’s higher education compact – The Vanderbilt Hustler
#2025 #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #America #DEI #DonaldTrump #Education #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Opinion #Politics #Resistance #Science #StudentGovernment #TeachIn #TheVanderbiltHustler #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSCompact #UnitedStates #VanderbiltUniversity
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#AmericanPrestige pod welcomes back historian #RashidKhalidi to talk about #ColumbiaUniversity's entente with the #Trump Administration, #Columbia's measures to bring in "outside monitors," and how powerful donors and neoliberal management models are affecting humanities departments and #MiddleEastStudies.
#studentProtests #ColumbiaU #academicFreedom #campusActivism #stateRepression #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #USpolitics #UShigherEd @palestine @israel
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#Texas just gutted #FreeSpeech on #college #campuses. Is your state next?
New laws in the Lone Star State will silence dissent and undermine #faculty authority.
By Laura Benitez and Jonathan Friedman
July 14, 2025"As thousands of students return to college campuses this fall, they will find themselves stepping into an environment reshaped by political and ideological mandates. Across the country, state legislators have been racing to exert new influence over free expression in higher education. Now, Texas has surged to the forefront, closing its 2025 legislative session by passing two alarming laws that take effect Sept. 1.
"Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in June, the new laws amount to a stunningly aggressive legislative crackdown on campus protest (#SB2972) and academic shared governance (#SB37) at public colleges and universities. The laws will not just silence dissent and undermine faculty authority in Texas; they provide a blueprint for how to dismantle academic freedom and chill speech on campus state by state.
"Only a few years ago, conservative lawmakers railed against college 'free-speech zones,' arguing that liberal administrators were muzzling students on the rest of campus. In 2019, Texas legislators joined other states in taking action by declaring all outdoor spaces on public campuses open for protest and speech by students, employees and the general public.
"Now, some of the same legislators have done an about-face. The campus protest law actually directs public colleges and universities to implement a version of free-speech zones and adopt sweeping limitations on protests. #Encampments? Banned. #Megaphones or #speakers during 'class hours'? Forbidden — if anyone claims your 'expressive activity' is one that 'intimidates others' or 'interferes' with an employee’s duties. Even wearing a mask during a protest — something many do for safety — could land a student or employee a disciplinary hearing resulting in 'sanctions.' And any expressive activity between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. is off-limits altogether."
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/texas-campus-free-speech/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2LuBD#TexasProtestLaws #ProtestLaws #ProtestLawsTexas #Project2025 #AntiProtestLaws #Authoritarianism #SilencingFreeSpeech #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #AntiMaskLaws #Fascism #USPol #CivilLiberties #Texas
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#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats
by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR
"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.
"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.
"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.
"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.
"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.
" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'
"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'
"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship
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Thurs Nov 14th @ 1pm ET 8pm Palestine
#Gaza In Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series
Leaving Zionism, Embracing Humanity | #RazSegal's Intellectual & Political Journey: Part 2 of 2
#RazSegal in conversation with #BassamHaddad
#Palestine #PalestineQuestion #Israel #oPt #GenocideStudies #IHRA #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #Jadaliyya @palestine
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#UniversityOfCalifornia #Faculty Groups File Landmark Unfair Labor Practices Complaint Against #UC Over UC’s Repression of #ActivismForPalestine
Anna Markowitz, Wendy Matsumura, and Annie McClanahan join #SpeakingOutOfPlace to discuss their faculty associations' complaint
#FreeSpeechOnCampus #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #CampusActivism #StateRepression #AcademicFreedom #USpol #USpolitics #Gaza #Palestine #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity
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George Mason's Faculty and Staff for Justice in #Palestine presents:
Resisting the Ratcheting Up of Repression in Academia and on Campus | Part 1
#EmmaiaGelman in conversation with #BassamHaddad and #BethanyLetiecq
#Gaza #WarOnGaza #PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #StudentProtests #FacultyProtests #AcademicFreedom #CampusActivism #FreeSpeechOnCampus #StateRepression #censorship #USpol #USpolitics @palestine
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"#ThePalestineException opens as #CampusEncampments increase across the US in protest against #Israel’s war in #Gaza."
Documenting the Fight Against The #Palestine Exception: A Conversation w/ #Filmmakers #JanHaaken & #JenniferRuth
https://speakingoutofplace.com/2024/09/03/documenting-the-fight-against-the-palestine-exception-a-conversation-with-filmmakers-jan-haaken-and-jennifer-ruth/
#cinéma #documentary #cinéastes #StudentProtests #GazaSolidarityEncampments #GazaSolidarity #PalestineSolidarity #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeechOnCampus #CampusActivism #USpol #USpolitics @palestinetrailer: https://youtu.be/0Uj71mtIQIY
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In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension | Session 5
Research on targeted #faculty intimidation and defamation
w/ #EmmaiaGelman, #IsaacKamola, #BassamHaddad, #MariamDurrani
https://youtu.be/8D7LvFgMiDs
#PalestineSolidarity #GazaSolidarity #FacultyProtests #CampusActivism #GazaGenocide #WarOnGaza #DecolonialStudies #FreeSpeech #USpol #USpolitics @palestine -
In Defense of #AcademicFreedom: The Case of #Israel and #NaderaShalhoubKevorkian
Guests:
#MayaWind, author of #TowersOfIvoryAndSteel: How #IsraeliUniversities Deny Palestinian Freedom
#SarahIhmoud, Chicana-Palestinian anthropologist, founding member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective
#ShahrazadOdeh, #HumanRights lawyermoderated by #MariamDurrani and #BassamHaddad
https://youtu.be/zR28PdhlN9w
#Palestine #Gaza #Palestinians #StateRepression #DecolonialStudies #books #Jadaliyya @palestine -
#Columbia and Beyond: The Surge in #ActivismForPalestine, the Instrumentalizing of “Safety,” and the Attack on Education by the #FarRight
guests: Hamza El Boudali, Natasha Lennard, Nicole Erin Morse
#PalestineSolidarity #Palestine #Gaza #StudentActivism #USPol #USPolitics #CampusActivism #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #StateRepression #CivilLiberties #ColumbiaU #ColumbiaUniversity #GazaSolidarityEncampment
